Top 5 Free WordPress Themes of the Month — December 2012 Edition

I was hoping to end the year with a bang when it came to our free plugins and themes of the month posts for December, and the selection available to me certainly didn’t disappoint. This month I had more shortlisted themes to choose from than I ever have, which means that what you see below is arguably one of the best offerings yet.

One thing is for sure — it was not easy whittling down the huge list of themes I had down to just five. To keep things interesting I picked five very different themes. Enjoy!

We’ll start with something really simple. I love minimalistic blog design with a focus on content — I’d rather be reading a sparse blog than an overpopulated one every time.

With that in mind we have Publish. It’s essentially a blank canvas — whilst you could use it as is, you could also use it as a base on which to build. It is fully responsive and has support for all of the basic WordPress features you would expect (such as custom menus and post formats).

We usually include a business theme in our themes of the month post and December’s edition is no exception. Poloray is a rather attractive effort with the usual slider up top / summary widgets below setup.

If you’re looking for a simple theme on which you can build your business’ first website, Poloray is a great option.

I am a huge fan of Caroline Moore’s work — she never disappoints. We’ve featured her themes before here on the ManageWP blog and will continue to do so as long as she keeps creating them.

Something Fishy has to be seen to be believed. Whilst it looks like a relatively normal (albeit well designed) theme in the screenshot above, you have to view the demo to see what makes it so special and unique. I won’t spoil the surprise — go and check it out for yourself!

Tom Ewer

Tom Ewer is the founder of WordCandy.co. He has been a huge fan of WordPress since he first laid eyes on it, and has been writing educational and informative content for WordPress users since 2011. When he's not working, you're likely to find him outdoors somewhere – as far away from a screen as possible!

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Shimla

Looks nice theme, I am using the last one in the list infoist in one of my blogs and now I will wait for the next list of themes u post in future. By the way when u will post the next list of free themes.

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Robert

These free WordPress themes look great, but the last 2 ones are a little bit lower quality the the previous 3 I hope we could get some free themes which are both great in design and efficient in using.